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Anonymous. Robin Hood (Classic Comics, No. VII). New York: Gilberton Company, December … Illustrated ⁃ Espeland, Velle 2008a, p. 11. Citation ⁃ Anonymous. Robin Hood (Classic Comics, No. VII) (New York, Dec. 1942) .

Anonymous. Robin Hood (Classic Comics, No. 7). New York: Gilberton Company, November … Illustrated. ⁃ Espeland, Velle 2008a; see p. 11. Citation ⁃ Anonymous. Robin Hood (Classics Illustrated, No. 7) (New York, Nov. 1955) .

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-08. Revised by … Together with the Gest of Robyn Hode and Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820), Howard Pyle's Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) is arguably the most influential of all works of Robin Hood fiction. Inspired by renaissance traditions, directly or perhaps more likely indirectly through Scott's Ivanhoe, Pyle chose to locate the life of Robin Hood during the reign of Richard I (1189-99) rather than that of "our comely King Edward" as in the Gest, but apart from this the book follows the ballads quite closely in terms of plot and incidents. Pyle is far from the first writer to avail himself of the fact that the ballads, done into prose and arranged in proper sequence, provide a 'life of Robin Hood'. In fact the earliest English children's books on Robin Hood tended to be such prose renderings of the ballads. What distinguishes Pyle's book is especially the nostalgic tone, evident also in the author's masterly drawings. Translations …

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-11-13. Revised by … The three US editions of this were issued in a total of 23 printings in the period 1942-71. The script for the first edition was written by Evelyn Goodman; the front cover interior was pencilled by Louis Zansky; it was inked by Fred Eng. Twelve printings of this edition were issued, six while the series title was Classic Comics, and six under the new series title Classics Illustrated (from March 1947). All printings of this first edition had a drawn front cover, while all printings of later editions had painted covers. The second edition (Nov. 1955) had the same contents as the first edition, but with a painted cover by Victor Prezio. Only this one printing of the second edition was issued, but Prezio's cover was retained in the third edition (Jan. 1957), which was illustrated by Jack Sparling and had a script by an unknown writer. Ten printings of the third US edition were issued. All Danish (perhaps all European) …